Sunday, August 6, 2017

Ethnic Russians from Regions Find It Harder to Adapt to Moscow than Do Foreign Gastarbeiters, Study Finds

Paul
Goble

Staunton, August 5 – Andrey
Berezantsev, a Russian psychiatrist, says that a new study of the physical
responses of new arrivals in Moscow – heart beat and other measures of stress –
shows that “Russians arriving in the capital from other regions despite the
absence of a language barrier, can feel more hopeless than migrants from CIS
countries.”

Life’s Yekaterina
Semenova reports that the Moscow Research Institute on Labor Medicine examined
1600 women from Russian regions and also from Tajikistan and Armenia who had
lived in Moscow less than three years and assessed their adaption to life there
by taking a series of physiological measures. It then rated them as to their
success in adapting to the city.

Russians from the regions formed the
largest share of those judged to have been unable to successfully adapt, while
among those with moderate success they trailed those from Tajikistan.